.TH PHD 1 "2011" "The PHP Documentation Team" "Docbook Rendering Engine"
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.SH NAME
phd \- The (PH)P Based (D)ocbook Renderer
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B phd
.RI [ options ]\ [ \fI\-d\fP| \fI\-\-docbook\fP]\ xmlfilename

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B PhD
is a Docbook rendering engine, aiming to replace Docbook-XSL and various
other requirements needed to build the PHP.net documentation.
The goal of PhD is to become a general purpose Docbook rendering engine,
just much much faster the other Docbook toolchains.

.PP
.B phd
bundles several output format in different packages, where the \fIGeneric\fP
package offers standard output without customization.
The \fiPHP\fP package for example is highly customized for the PHP.net
documentations and is not intended to be used outside of PHP.net.

.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose \fIint\fP
Adjusts the verbosity level.
.TP
.B \-P, \-\-package \fIpackagename\fP
Specifies the package which should be used by the rendering process (i.e.
customization strategy).
.TP
.B \-f, \-\-format \fIformatname\fP
Specifies the output format to create.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-docbook \fIxmlfilename\fP
The XML file (DocBook) to render from.
.TP
.B \-l, \-\-list
Lists all available packages and output formats.

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.SH AUTHOR
phd was written by <The PHP Documentation Team>
